I really want a "What if" Machine. I'd kill for it.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/57247756

I really want a "What if" Machine. I'd kill for it. - sh.itjust.works

Alt universe Showerthought: [I really want to live in the Universe where I didn’t commit murder to get this “What If” Machine… I can already hear the police sirens getting louder…]

You’ve already got one :

LLM’s!

Simply ask them “what if…”

& see all the consequences you didn’t foresee.

LLM’s are the ultimate brainstorming help.

Idiots & fools allow them to do their work for them, & wonder why “their” work is no-longer up to their standards,

… but just because idiots & fools use technologies wrong, doesn’t mean WE have to do that too, right?

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Eh… I asked a LLM what if I arrived in the US when I was 6 instead of 8 and it predicted I’d probably totally forget my knowledge of Chinese and be more American… and it said I’d be responding in English instead of Cantonese… and that I would not feel so sentinental towards my Chinese name and constantly write those Characters on my assignments in school next to the Pinyin Name…

Like…

I don’t know about that… seems like it got a lot of data from just stereotyping…

I want like a superpowerful computer that can predict the movement of every particle in the universe…

Laplace’s Demon sort of thing…

How much data do I need to even feed it to get it to make an accurate prediction? A full brain scan?

But then that runs into a privacy issue.

I want an OFF GRID what if machine that I can destroy so nobody has a map of my brain…

Have you seen Devs (2020) series? From Hulu if I recall it correctly. The story rhymes with what you want.